Newport Beach, Calif. (Vocus) September 20, 2007
As part of its long-term commitment to the growth and development of specialized, patient-centered care programs and services, Hoag Hospital named Dr. Michael Krychman, one of the world’s leading experts in sexual health and survivorship medicine, the medical director of its new Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine program.
Known both nationally and internationally for his research and work in the field of female sexual health and cancer survivorship, Dr. Krychman co-founded The Sexual Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is a board-certified OB/GYN and a licenced nonsubjective sexologist, with a master’s degree in common health and anthropoid sexuality.
Dr. Krychman’s expertise reaches beyond true borders to admit research and composing for individual medical journals, including co-authoring chapters for “Cancer, Sexuality and Sexual Expression” in Female Dysfunction, 1st edition. He has also served on a variety of editorial review and informatory boards overseeing a different range of topics tied in to gynecologic oncology, intersexual health, female dysfunction and survivorship medicine. He recently printed “100 Questions & Answers for Women Living with Cancer: A Practical Guide to Female Cancer Survivorship.”
A Shift In Women’s Health Care
“The term ‘sexual dysfunction’ has gained notoriety due to popular male-enhancing, performance drugs such as Viagra,” said Vivian Dickerson, M.D., FACOG, and Hoag’s Medical Director of Women’s Health Programs & Care. “However, what is not acknowledged, nor fully backed up by the mainstream medical community is the phenomenon of female intersexual dysfunction and the impact it has on a woman’s health, experienced relationships and universal well-being.”
According to Dickerson, the importance of sexual health, and the medical and relationship issues that result in sexual dysfunction are being taken a little more seriously within the women’s health care industry. However, “it is still an abundant way from being acknowledged as a ‘subspecialty’ or even considered a binding medical condition.”
“Women’s sexual concerns are also often ignored or treated as psychological, social or emotional complaints by their health care providers. Hoag’s program takes afloat advantage of Dr. Krychman’s nonsubjective expertise in intersexual health and survivorship medicine to do by the analyzable layers of a woman’s intersexuality as well as render follow-up care for degenerative and long-term dysfunction,” put forward Dickerson.
Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine
Hoag Hospital’s Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine program incorporates two, highly specialized areas of focus for women of all ages and sexual orientation. These include:
Sexual Health, which focuses on heightening intersexual health and intimacy for women with disorders of intersexual function as a result of pain, illness, hormonal changes, medications, stress and cancer and its treatments.
And, Survivorship Medicine, which focuses on long-term, quality-of-life concerns and intersexual health issues for women dwelling with a degenerative medical illness, a history of cancer or those who are at risk for evolving cancer
Sexual Health
Sexual dysfunction affects nearly half of all post-pubertal women in the U.S. as well as the large majority of peri- and post-menopausal women. Women often experi-ence symptoms that can greatly reduce their desire for intimacy as well as mar their quality of life. For instance, much degenerative illnesses as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurological disorders may impact a woman’s intersexual function.
Additionally, many drug classes used to treat these conditions can affect the sexual response cycle and cause sexual dysfunction. Hormones also play an earthshaking role in modulating intersexual function. Loss of estrogen and androgen affects both the amidship excitable system and the afferent organs that find out the quality of sexual response, therefore, peri- and post-menopausal women often experi-ence sexual problems, especially dysparenia and vaginal atrophy.
Sexual dysfunction is also a common consequence of cancer therapy that may persist after treatment is completed. It is announced that 90% of female cancer survivors have some form of long-lasting intersexual complaint. Chemotherapy and radiation (especially to the pelvic area) can result in a choppy loss of estrogen production in the ovaries doing a woman to experience symptoms of menopause including vaginal dryness, vaginal atrophy and dysparenia. Hormonal manipulation, specifically anti-estrogens and aromatase inhibitors, can also exacerbate menopausal symptoms
Moreover, women undergoing a radical hysterectomy, cystectomy, abdominal-perineal resection and vulvectomy to remove cancer in the reproductive organs will also experience menopause and the symptoms previously discussed. These in effect procedures can also change the constructive anatomy and compromise the neurovascular integrity to organ systems that are acute to intersexual responsiveness.
Survivorship Medicine
In addition to treating female sexual dysfunction, Hoag’s Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine program also delivers specialized care to women living with chronic medical illnesses, such as Multiple Sclerosis, heart disease, diabetes and many others, as well as to women who may have been recently diagnosed with any type of cancer; women who have received chemotherapy, surgery or radiation; or, women, who may be preparing to undergo these types of cancer-related procedures. The program is designed to restore a woman’s intersexual health and function, optimize levels of intimacy, improve overall health and well being, and, help reduce risks for cancer reoccurrence
About Dr. Krychman
Prior to serving as Co-Founder and -Director of Sexual Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Krychman kept positions as Associate Professor at Cornell Medical School in New York City, and before that was on staff at Temple University Hospital and Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia.
Dr. Krychman holds licenses from three states including California, Pennsylvania and New York. His nonsubjective interests are different, running from chemotherapy-induced chemical dysparenia to management of intersexual dysfunction in cancer and non-cancer patients. His extraordinary interests admit sexual pain disorders, loss of libido, degenerative medical illness and its impact on female sexual function, as well as breast cancer sexuality.
Fluent in French and English, Dr. Krychman incurred his doctorate in medicine and masters in surgery from McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal, where he was identified a “Great Distinction Medical Scholar.”
About Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (www.hoaghospital.org) is a 498-bed, not-for-profit, perceptive care hospital turned up in Newport Beach, Calif. Fully recognised by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and denominated as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Hoag offers an across-the-board blend of health care services, including Centers of Excellence in cancer, heart and vascular, neurosciences, orthopedics and women’s health. Recent studies let go of by HealthGrades place Hoag among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for both Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety. National Research Corporation has indorsed Hoag as Orange County’s most chose hospital for the past 10 ordered years. And for an unexampled 11 years, residents of Orange County have selected Hoag as the county’s best hospital in a localised newspaper survey
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